Originally Posted by Ash UK/US

It is sooo funny that this thread should come up now... I had a very similiar conversation on friday with a customer at work... her husband asked the usual where is your accent from and I told him then she asks what I like and don't like about living in the US and her told her that living in the MI I now dislike the snow and she pipes up 'what you would prefer to have it rain all the time' then I said my main dislike about living in the US was the health system... oh you should have seen her face... as soon as I said that she jumped on the defensive. Telling me how it is the best in the world and how when people in the UK can't get the treatment over there they come to the US blah blah blah. I told her how I had got a bill for a blood test that was going to cost me $400 out of pocket and that when I argued with the insurance company they agreed to pay ($49 with the rest being written off) and that in the US it was all about making money etc- her reply well it must have been a one off... I didn't tell her that I was in the middle of disputing another one... which by the way turned out being covered too

She had no reply when said that I work with girls who can't afford health insurance and do not qualify for assitance and that I thought it was backwards that people should have to question whether they get the treatment they require rather then face huge bills or whether they risk it and feed their kids and heat their house. (last year the Dr found a lump in my breast, luckly it turned out to be nothing, but it really got me thinking on what it would be like to have to face that without insurance).

I realised it was time to shut up when I told her that I would have preferred to go back to England to have my daughter because the care esp the aftercare was better in my opinion that the only reason I did not was that my husband could not have been there to see his first child born.I thought she was going to blow a gasket... she was really upset with it LOL but she did ask.

Ash

Originally Posted by izibear

I told a friend of mine, a pilot with a major airline here, the other day, how little you pay to fly out of the UK and I am not kidding, but he didnt' believe me......

I live in old age / nursing home state, and it is heartbreaking to see some of the old dears at the chemists...

Originally Posted by Bradford Lass

Ok I was having a bad day before reading this but now I am bloody depressed, got a doctors appointment tommorow somebody tell me they got some good treatment. On another note meds costing so much you would think people would take better care of themselves - eating etc

Originally Posted by Bradford Lass

Ok I was having a bad day before reading this but now I am bloody depressed, got a doctors appointment tommorow somebody tell me they got some good treatment.

Originally Posted by Ash UK/US

It is sooo funny that this thread should come up now... I had a very similiar conversation on friday with a customer at work... her husband asked the usual where is your accent from and I told him then she asks what I like and don't like about living in the US and her told her that living in the MI I now dislike the snow and she pipes up 'what you would prefer to have it rain all the time' then I said my main dislike about living in the US was the health system... oh you should have seen her face... as soon as I said that she jumped on the defensive. Telling me how it is the best in the world and how when people in the UK can't get the treatment over there they come to the US blah blah blah. I told her how I had got a bill for a blood test that was going to cost me $400 out of pocket and that when I argued with the insurance company they agreed to pay ($49 with the rest being written off) and that in the US it was all about making money etc- her reply well it must have been a one off... I didn't tell her that I was in the middle of disputing another one... which by the way turned out being covered too

She had no reply when said that I work with girls who can't afford health insurance and do not qualify for assitance and that I thought it was backwards that people should have to question whether they get the treatment they require rather then face huge bills or whether they risk it and feed their kids and heat their house. (last year the Dr found a lump in my breast, luckly it turned out to be nothing, but it really got me thinking on what it would be like to have to face that without insurance).

I realised it was time to shut up when I told her that I would have preferred to go back to England to have my daughter because the care esp the aftercare was better in my opinion that the only reason I did not was that my husband could not have been there to see his first child born.I thought she was going to blow a gasket... she was really upset with it LOL but she did ask.

Ash

Originally Posted by frrussre

Contributions are much less then people in the USA have to pay.

Originally Posted by frrussre

We had a Brit friend visiting us over the XMAS holidays, he had chest pains & went to our local ER room. They took his info & asked for $350, initial ER visit fee. The fee was payable before they would check him over. Lucky he did not go by ambulance, I think its over $500 + the $350.
Reg. Frank R.

Originally Posted by ladyofthelake

Yeah, they don't like being told some other country does it better, but constantly brag that their country is the worlds greatest. And they wonder why the rest of the world gets pissed off with it....

Originally Posted by AmerLisa

Really?

Originally Posted by ladyofthelake

Yeah, they don't like being told some other country does it better, but constantly brag that their country is the worlds greatest. And they wonder why the rest of the world gets pissed off with it....

Originally Posted by AmerLisa

He came over with no travel insurance??? :scared: :scared: :scared:

Originally Posted by frrussre

YES, he came over with Travel/medical Ins. They still wanted him to pay the $350 & a Credit Card for further charges. They eventually took his ins. We are now receiving unpaid bills for him. Eventually, the Ins will pay some of the charges & he will get stuck with the rest.
Reg.
Frank R.

Originally Posted by CaliforniaBride

I've already said, I'm back at school and nearly every day a professor will mention something about America with "not just best in this country but best in the world" and I've lost count of how many times I've heard the word "Superpower". Not to mention that they teach people that the rest of the world is jealous of them. Oh and the "your generation will not just be running the country but running the world". Did God resign? (not that I'm religious but those that are may have something to say about that). Or the "we're the last superpower". Have they not heard of last one in last one out? One word...China


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Originally Posted by AmerLisa

Maybe it will all change after Bush leaves office. America will be broke beyond repair, and Americans will have to rely on charitable contributions from other countries